Wai Kai will stage a Team USA Olympic surfing qualifier on July 11; open division winners earn Team USA spots and a trip to Lakeside Surf. The event precedes Honua Finals week in Honolulu.

University of Hawaiʻi’s new Climate Data Portal will send free monthly, localized summaries of rainfall, temperature and drought starting July 1.

A 43‑year‑old Oahu man has been charged in a federal child‑porn case involving a 15‑year‑old from Hawaii Island. Prosecutors say he met the girl on Snapchat and recorded sexual activity at an Airbnb.

A Garden Grove man was sentenced to 220 months after prosecutors say he shipped pounds of meth and fentanyl to Hawaii as part of a Homeland Security Task Force probe.

A Honolulu City Council committee advanced Bill 20 to create a down‑payment loan fund for first‑time buyers; the draft sets income and loan caps and leaves funding questions unresolved.

A former Honolulu city food-security official was arrested after prosecutors say he persuaded the Hawai‘i Foodbank to buy about $800,000 in food that was never reimbursed.

Warm, breezy Monday gives way to scattered showers Tuesday–Wednesday and stronger trade winds midweek. Plan for gusts and brief downpours in windward areas.

Mostly sunny in Honolulu with highs near 86°F. Trades strengthen midweek and south‑shore surf stays elevated into the weekend.

Sunny and breezy today with highs near 87°F. Humid evenings and a south swell building overnight.

Warm and muggy today with a high near 88°F; isolated afternoon showers are possible, mainly over interior and northwest slopes.

An appeals court revived Sunshine Law and rule‑making claims tied to the 2023 redeployment of DLNR deputy M. Kaleo Manuel, sending the dispute back to circuit court.

The Pentagon has restored the command’s historic USPACOM name; headquarters remain at Camp H.M. Smith in Halawa and officials say missions and boundaries won’t change.

King tides and a south‑southwest swell are pushing south‑shore surf to advisory levels; expect nuisance coastal flooding during late‑afternoon high tides.